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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

John Frusciante will release an LP under his Trickfinger alias

Tracklist

After Below

Before Above

Rainover

Sain

Exlam

85h

4:30

Phurip

John Frusciante to release experimental acid house album on April 7th of 2015. The label Acid Test is a vinyl-focused label and it has released 303-oriented dance music from Tin Man, Pépé Bradock, Achterbahn D'Amour and now John Frusciante.

John Frusciante describes his path to acid house in a letter included with the album.

"I started being serious about following my dream to make electronic music, and to be my own engineer, five years ago. For the 10 years prior to that, I had been playing guitar along with a wide range of different types of programmed synthesizer and sample-based music, emulating what I heard as best as I could. I found that the languages machines forced programmers to think in had caused them to discover a new musical vocabulary...

In 2007, I started to learn how to program all the instruments we associate with acid house music and some other hardware. For about seven months I didn’t record anything. Then I started recording, playing 10 or so synced machines through a small mixer into a CD burner. This was all experimental acid house, my skills at making rock music playing no part in it whatsoever. I had lost interest in traditional songwriting and I was excited about finding new methods for creating music. I’d surround myself with machines, program one and then another and enjoy what was a fascinating process from beginning to end…"

1 comment:

It doesn't bother me that he's "lost interest" in songwriting because anything new that he releases will have his sound come through somehow, as it did in this; and especially as it came through in Enclosure.